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The Philippine National Police and the Commission on Human Rights have appealed to the public to stop sharing videos of the recent school shooting in Tacloban and stabbing incidents in other parts of the country, saying the footage forces the wounded and the victims' families to relive the attacks. 

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Yesterday we woke up to the fact that our schools aren’t us safe as we thought they were.

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The number of students wounded in a school shooting in Tacloban City has risen to 20, police said on Tuesday, a day after two teenagers opened fire on their classmates.

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DepEd has ordered the phased removal of grade transmutation, with raw scores to stand as final grades.

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Classes in General Santos and Sarangani remain suspended after the quake.

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All five Philippine universities in the QS World University Rankings 2027 fell in their standings, with rankings firm Quacquarelli Symonds saying advances elsewhere in higher education may be the cause of the drop. 

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Across the Philippines, principals in disaster-prone areas spend as much time scrounging up funds for repairs and improvising solutions to campus flooding as they do running the school. While DepEd has already found an elevated school building design, Secretary Sonny Angara has acknowledged that its immediate nationwide rollout would be too costly at this time. 

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The government has begun nationwide preparations for the opening of classes on June 8, the Department of Education announced, tapping police, health workers and utility firms to ensure the smooth start of the school year. 

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The Department of Education has set the opening of classes this year on June 8 under the country's first trimester calendar. 

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At least 177 leaders from Catholic schools nationwide gathered as they backed the proposed expansion of government assistance to underprivileged students enrolling in private schools through a voucher system.

[DatePublished] => 2026-04-12 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 1 [AuthorID] => 1807714 [AuthorName] => Bella Cariaso [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => https://media.philstar.com/photos/2026/04/11/14_2026-04-11_21-58-56782_thumbnail.jpg ) ) )
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The Philippine National Police and the Commission on Human Rights have appealed to the public to stop sharing videos of the recent school shooting in Tacloban and stabbing incidents in other parts of the country, saying the footage forces the wounded and the victims' families to relive the attacks. 

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Yesterday we woke up to the fact that our schools aren’t us safe as we thought they were.

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The number of students wounded in a school shooting in Tacloban City has risen to 20, police said on Tuesday, a day after two teenagers opened fire on their classmates.

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DepEd has ordered the phased removal of grade transmutation, with raw scores to stand as final grades.

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Classes in General Santos and Sarangani remain suspended after the quake.

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All five Philippine universities in the QS World University Rankings 2027 fell in their standings, with rankings firm Quacquarelli Symonds saying advances elsewhere in higher education may be the cause of the drop. 

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Across the Philippines, principals in disaster-prone areas spend as much time scrounging up funds for repairs and improvising solutions to campus flooding as they do running the school. While DepEd has already found an elevated school building design, Secretary Sonny Angara has acknowledged that its immediate nationwide rollout would be too costly at this time. 

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The government has begun nationwide preparations for the opening of classes on June 8, the Department of Education announced, tapping police, health workers and utility firms to ensure the smooth start of the school year. 

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The Department of Education has set the opening of classes this year on June 8 under the country's first trimester calendar. 

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At least 177 leaders from Catholic schools nationwide gathered as they backed the proposed expansion of government assistance to underprivileged students enrolling in private schools through a voucher system.

[DatePublished] => 2026-04-12 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 1 [AuthorID] => 1807714 [AuthorName] => Bella Cariaso [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => https://media.philstar.com/photos/2026/04/11/14_2026-04-11_21-58-56782_thumbnail.jpg ) ) )
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